Marathon training season has kicked into high gear and along with this comes injuries, according to Loyola University Health System sports medicine physicians…
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Tips To Prevent Marathon Runners From Getting Sidelined With Injuries Come Race Day
The American Dietetic Association has published an updated position paper on local support for nutrition integrity in schools that calls on schools and communities to work together to provide healthful and affordable meals for all children and to promote educational environments that help students learn and practice healthy behaviors for their entire lives…
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American Dietetic Association Updated Position Paper Says Developing Lifelong Healthy Behaviors In Children Is A "Shared Responsibility"
The results of a two year long study comparing two groups of dieters were recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. 307 obese adults participated in the study with one group of dieters being assigned a low fat diet and the other being assigned a low carb diet similar to Atkin’s.
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Poll: Low Fat Diets vs. Low Carb Diets
I need healthy snacks can anyone advise?
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Need Healthy Snack Ideas [Forum]
Tasting parties, junior cooking classes and yes, Popeye cartoons can help boost vegetable intake in kindergarten children, according to a study published in the journal Nutrition and Dietetics . 26 kindergarten children, aged four to five, participated in the eight week study.
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Children’s Veggie Intake Doubles with Education, Role-Modelling and Popeye
New research from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh(1), shows that sugary drinks, consumed in moderate quantities, do not promote weight gain, carbohydrate craving or adverse mood effects in overweight women when they do not know what they are drinking…
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Research Shows Sugary Drinks Do Not Cause Weight Gain
Starchy foods such as bread, cereals, pasta and rice are an essential part of our diet and our body’s main source of energy, which should make up a third of our diet. A common misconception is that starchy carbohydrates are fattening but gram for gram, they are lower in calories than protein and fat…
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The Unrefined Way To A Healthy Heart
The UK’s Campaign for Real Ale (Camra), has recently claimed that switching wine for beer can help you lose weight. This looks like wishful thinking and clever use of statistics taken a little too far… Continue reading…
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Beer: The Latest Unlikely Health Food
The School Nutrition Association (SNA) commends the US Senate for advancing Child Nutrition Reauthorization legislation prior to the body’s August recess. “The Senate, Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln and Senator Chambliss should be applauded for their tireless efforts to meet the nutritional needs of America’s school children,” said SNA President Nancy Rice, M.Ed…
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SNA Commends Senate Passage Of Child Nutrition Reauthorization; But Calls On House To Make Critical Changes To The Bill
You may have seen headlines about new data from a large, ongoing cancer study published this week in the journal Cancer which suggest that chemicals in processed red meat such as ham, bacon, hot dogs and bologna may be linked to bladder cancer…
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Processed Meat Linked To Bladder Cancer – American Institute For Cancer Research Comment
